Interpol is often overlooked and underutilized in the war on terror despite having valuable resources, says its secretary general, Ron Noble. Noble, the first American to head the storied international law enforcement agency, tells Steve Kroft he fears more people may lose their lives in a terrorist attack that his agency could help prevent. Noble's interview will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES, Sunday, Oct. 7 (7:30-9:00 PM, ET, 7:00-900 PM, PT) on the CBS Television Network.
"What I don't want this to be is an interview that's played after a terrorist attack occurs where thousands of people have been killedÉ.and people will say, ÔYou didn't check his passport... you didn't run his fingerprints against Interpol's database?'" worries Noble.
Why not use Interpol? These guys have found terrorists, criminals, and other bad guys over the course of many years, spanning just about every country on the planet. It would be in our best interests to use every resource that is available to us to catch people who want to blow up planes, buses, and other acts of terrorism.
I find it very hard to believe that Interpol couldn't be extremely helpful in our attempts to catch bad guys, so why not?
"I keep thinking about Sept. 11 and all the other terrorist attacks and I'm seeing the mistakes that are being made... and I think about one of these days it's going to happen again," he says. Noble says he was never called by officials after 9/11. "I promised myself and... my staff that that would never happen again -- it would never be that a terrorist attack would occur anywhere in the world and we wouldn't be called," he tells Kroft.
The guy wants to be used, so why not use him? Everyone wins in this way.
Travis
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